Associations between white matter microstructure and infants' working memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 156-166

  Short, Sarah J ^a   Elison, Jed T ^a,b,c   Goldman, Barbara Davis ^b,d   Styner, Martin ^a,e   Gu, Hongbin ^a,f   Connelly, Mark ^a   Maltbie, Eric ^a   Woolson, Sandra ^a   Lin, Weili ^a   Gerig, Guido ^g   Reznick, J Steven ^b,d   Gilmore, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^f IL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Diffusion tensor imaging; Infant; White matter; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867308968     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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